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Sorry forgot to get pics!

Mums got the camera now and shes away so will have tommorow night!

Well went for a play tonight and finally got pics of the snorkel!



Bracketed to the arial hole!


Side on!


I like that more than my old one!


I have to admit the black one did put up with a beating but it had like a 45 coming out that dragged along every thing where as the new one in curved! The black one the top got caught on a tree and i kept driving witch made it snap!

looks real good might fix my old one up

Cost like $20 and i have bits cut up the same length in the back in case the same thing happens as what happend to my old one!

what did you use as a top

It's a plumbing thing from bunings it's like a cap that has has a curved top and bits cut out with mesh in it!

I'll get ya pic in a few hours!

What was wrong with the old one? It looked like steel to me.

Just curious.

Steve.

I though it was exhaust pipe but only the bend coming out from the gaurd was the up rite bit was PVC covered in fibre glass but the top got caught on a tree when i was in bonnet deep mud and being in a NT scapping along the bank cause i didn't fit in the ruts! Got a pic on my phone of the snapped off one if you really wanna see it! Pulled the areil out and snaped it to!

suzuki boy wrote:I though it was exhaust pipe but only the bend coming out from the gaurd was the up rite bit was PVC covered in fibre glass but the top got caught on a tree when i was in bonnet deep mud and being in a NT scapping along the bank cause i didn't fit in the ruts! Got a pic on my phone of the snapped off one if you really wanna see it! Pulled the areil out and snaped it to!

and now the new one will explode when you hit a tree or lean against a bank etc. Ask christover what sort of noise it made and all the dangerous shrapnel that went flying

Yep my old one coped a beating bhut when it went it was one of the loudest bangs i have ever heard!

I have all bits cut to length in the drawers so if it does go again it will be a 5 minute job to fix!

Heres a pic of the top bit!

http://www.outerlimits4x4.com/viewtopic ... 1&start=30

check it out for some pics of my PVC snorkel.

To Be replaced with Stainless, when i get the chance/money/time...

While i have snapped about 6 PVC snorkels now but you can fix em on the tracks with sillicone and shorter bits i have in the rig!

BUT it's goin soon for a stainless.....

I still think felxible hose is the go for snorkels, of course they aren't the prettiest but since when were fourbies meant to be pretty? And they will outlast PVC by many thousands of miles and unlike stainless won't cause more damage to your panels if you do touch a tree and it will just spring back into shape when you do.

Each to their own of course, I think the stainless ones look alot better but virtually the same price as a pvc one you could have a much better snorkel that IMO looks just as good if not better than PVC.

My two cents, flame suit on....

GRPABT1 wrote:since when were fourbies meant to be pretty?

My Zooks not pretty, its dead Sexy

GRPABT1 wrote:Each to their own of course

You said it!

My votes for stainless, make a PVC one to see where you want to run the snorkel, then take it to an exhaust shop and use the PVC for a pattern for the stainless one.

Definatly cant keep a PVC snorkel on a NT i have found out so stainless is being put instead!

suzuki boy wrote:Definatly cant keep a PVC snorkel on a NT i have found out so stainless is being put instead!

If you're hitting the pvc one all the time then you'll hit the staino one too. Maybe some trippy out the bonnet snorkel or the like to keep it inside the outer panels would be the go.

GRPABT1 wrote:Each to their own of course

You said it!

My votes for stainless, make a PVC one to see where you want to run the snorkel, then take it to an exhaust shop and use the PVC for a pattern for the stainless one.

thats the plan - now that i have a pvc one, when i go to the zorst place for my extractors/pipe i can get them to bend up a snorkel aswell!

p.s. i aint as silly as i look - but thats debateable.[/quote]

GRPABT1 wrote:

suzuki boy wrote:Definatly cant keep a PVC snorkel on a NT i have found out so stainless is being put instead!

If you're hitting the pvc one all the time then you'll hit the staino one too. Maybe some trippy out the bonnet snorkel or the like to keep it inside the outer panels would be the go.

I have seen patrols and cars with stainless that have hit banks and they don't come out as bad as you think!

Mine bein a NT though its more how it comes out of the body! With pvc its a 90 degree peice but the guy who i want to build my snorkel it will come out on the angle and looks awsome!(You probably dont get what i mean but it sort of works it's way out of the body at like 10 degrese and work's it's way out......)

dank wrote:You should be able to pick up a Donaldson Air Ram Head from a trucking supplies shop for around 35 bucks for a 3inch one and less for smaller diameters.

this is my snorkle...just rubber bends and aluminium pipe i got for free.

not the best pic but you get the idea. Bunnings sell a drainpipe flywire mesh protector which fits perfectly onto the 3inch rubber bend pipe to stop leaves and mud chunks getting into the intake....

Where did you get the rubber bends from Dank?
I was at Bunnings today but they only had PVC bends.

g'day cairnszook, I got my bends from a place called truckbits in dandenong, vic. A trucking supplies store will have them.

Dank if you want a nice snorkel talk to thomahawk on mudrhino.... HIs work is awsome! Thats who will be doin my snorkel when i get some coin also an air intake that go's straight to the top of the carby and has an air filter in there somewhere in stead of all the hose clamps and stuff the stock suzi one has!

65mm PVC. im a plumber so cost me nothing. i used in total

2 90 bends
1 plumb quick to attach the pipe to the air box
3 15 bends
1 90 65 to 75mm for the top.
1 3 inch cap

i just put a hole saw in the cap and put in some stainless steel mesh in there.

and that will get broken off the first branch that hits it at any sort of speed or if you lean it into an object. May also get busted just driving at 100km/h on the freeway without any sort of bracing

grimbo wrote:and that will get broken off the first branch that hits it at any sort of speed or if you lean it into an object. May also get busted just driving at 100km/h on the freeway without any sort of bracing

X2

least being a plumber he can re-make it every week lol

it is bracketed on. i need to bracket it more so its stronger.

ive been up to 120kmh and its fine

How often do you wheel? It sticks out a heap i would of thought that would of snapped off on the first bank you hit or branch that catches it!

would not have survived this tight squeeze lol.

i am trying to work out some sort of snorkel that would be out of the way completely that still looks good. still on the drawing boards lol.

Sam

Yours is a WT as well mines NT so on even more of a lean!

Any way when you work out a nice snorkel let me know!

mine has survived that fine as well as the panels.

mines 3" steel exhaust bent close to panel as possible.

also mines a MPFI so out the passenger side.